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December 22, 2025

The Social and Technical Values of a Grassroots Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset

Our work “Our Collective Voices: The Social and Technical Values of a Grassroots Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset” was published at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025), a leading interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine the social, ethical, and political impacts of AI […]
July 5, 2025

Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity – CHI 2025 Workshop Recap

In collaboration with researchers and scholars from Carnegie Mellon University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Gallaudet University, Apple, Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Maryland, College Park, we led a CHI 2025 workshop on “Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, […]
September 9, 2024

InterSpeech ’24 trip report and reflections

By Shaomei Wu Given that we are now deep in the space of speech AI technology, I attended InterSpeech 2024 conference for the first time last week at Kos Island, Greece. It was an eye-opening experience, I enjoyed meeting researchers and practioners interested in fair speech AI in person – […]
March 25, 2024

AImpower.org’s Second Year in Review

AImpower.org was founded on a fundamental belief that marginalized communities – underserved and underrepresented by technologies – have the authority and the rights to take charge of their own technological experiences. As a tech nonprofit, our role is to amplify their authority and rights, co-creating fair and equitable technologies for, […]
January 18, 2023

Publishing our research at CHI 2023

We are excited to share that, our research with the stuttering community on their videoconferencing experience has been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)! Our paper, titled “‘The World is Designed for Fluent People’: Benefits and Challenges of Videoconferencing Technologies for People […]